Manifest Paris: A new event conceived as an ephemeral, creative, and committed capsule
6 days of engaging exploration of ceramic sculpture.
PARIS.—
Manifest Paris will take place in the prestigious spaces of Galerie Charpentier, located at 76 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris 8th arrondissement. Conceived in collaboration with around ten galleries and partners, the event will offer a rich program combining talks, cocktails, and receptions, all set within an original and daring scenography.
Manifest Paris
6 days of engaging exploration of ceramic sculpture*
Manifest Paris is a capsule conceived with the ambition of showcasing modern and contemporary ceramics at the heart of Art Week in Paris. Located near the Grand Palais, in the prestigious Matignon Saint-Honoré district, it celebrates the excellence and avant garde of today’s ceramic creation.
‘Manifest Paris is a 6-day artistic and festive event in line with our vision of promoting and defending ceramic sculpture in the heart of Paris’ announces Jean-Marc Dimanche, co-founder of ceramic brussels.
"The event will be radically different from our Brussels fair... It will complement it perfectly, while retaining the energy, creativity and quality that are the DNA of ceramic brussels today," he adds.
‘Manifest Paris will offer a programme of activities built around synergies with the Sejuinne de l'Art and the Matignon Saint-Honoré district, under the impetus of the galleries in the Matignon Saint-Honoré association’ adds Gilles Parmentier.
‘Thanks to this concept, based on a flexible approach within a temporary venue, we have a hybrid exhibition-sale format that opens the way to future new destinations’ is delighted to say Gilles Parmentier, co-founder of ceramic brussels.
Artists
Anke Eilergerhard (Galerie Anna Laudel)
Anke Eilergerhard, born in Wuppertal and based in Berlin since 1999, creates contemporary sculptures centered around the motif of cake—a symbol of beauty, desire, and deception. She works with pigmented silicone applied using a piping bag, blending abstraction and figuration in a style she calls “purist baroque.” Her series ANNAS, which combines silicone and porcelain, explores femininity and cultural stereotypes. Exhibited internationally, she reinvents sculpture at the crossroads of art, kitsch, and tradition.
Hanefi Yeter (Galerie Anna Laudel)
Born in 1947 in Bayburt, Hanefi Yeter was trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul before continuing his studies in Paris and Berlin. The first Turkish artist to hold a solo exhibition in East Germany, he has presented over 90 exhibitions. His work—spanning ceramics, sculpture, mosaic, and fresco—combines traditional craftsmanship with contemporary forms. Featured in numerous public spaces, his art explores cultural identity through a dialogue between materials and symbols.
Claudi Casanovas (Galerie Capta)
The Catalan ceramicist shapes massive volumes in porcelain, which are first solidified and then broken to reveal rocky, fragmented textures inspired by his geological observations (El Hierro Island). His technique combines the raw force of the hammer with the finesse of sculptural gesture. Monumental and archaeological, his works speak of a dialogue between microcosm and macrocosm, as well as of the ancestral bond between clay and fire.
Bente Skjøttgaard (Galerie Maria Lund)
Bente Skjøttgaard, trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, creates ceramic works inspired by nature, blending organic textures with subtle colors. Her sculptures, balancing lightness anddensity, convey the power of fire and the softness of earth. Her work explores the tension between natural form and abstraction. Represented in prestigious collections such as the MAD in Paris and the Designmuseum Denmark, she exhibits internationally.
Andrés Anza (Galerie Anna Marra)
Andrés Anza, born in 1991 in Monterrey, creates amorphous ceramic sculptures that blend ancestral traditions with contemporary aesthetics. Playing with volume, relief, and dense textures, his works take the form of strange creatures—both familiar and enigmatic. Through this complex materiality, he invites viewers to explore the unknown and rethink their relationship with an organic imaginary. Winner of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize in 2024, he exhibits internationally.
Rémy Pommeret (Galerie La peau de l’ours)
Rémy Pommeret shapes a porcelain bestiary in which each creature is sculpted with a hieratic precision reminiscent of sacred statuary. Through his sculptures, he invites the viewer into a silent contemplation, where each piece becomes an enigma—a wordless fable evoking awe, the memory of the living, and a poetics of archaism. His work questions our relationship to animality, nature, and collective imagination, while subtly playing with the codes of traditional ceramics.
Benoit Poupard (Galerie NeC)
Guided by the idea of a "Celadonia"suspended between land and sea, Benoît Poupard creates porcelain volumes glazed with celadon, reflecting the inner vertigo of the glacier. His fragmented sculptures reveal the fragility of our times and the erosion of possibilities, driven by an experimentally geological approach that invites us to consider the corporeality of matter as a choreographer of transformation.
Carl Richard Söderström (Galerie NeC)
Born in 1960 in Sweden, Carl Richard Söderström works with raw black clay, sculpting abstract forms that lie between vegetal and fossil. His ceramics, created with an intuitive gesture and sometimes polished or glazed, evoke a dialogue between nature and artifice, between mineral life and instinctive sculpture. His pieces, such as Dancing Bear, combine power and poetry, exploring the tensions between humanity and the environment in a primal, soulful aesthetic.
Kim Simonsson (Galerie NeC)
Finnish artist Kim Simonsson, born in 1974, is renowned for his “Moss People” stoneware sculptures covered with fibers that imitate moss, figures both childlike and mysterious. These half-human, half-plant creatures embody a Nordic poetry blending myth, nature, and contemporary fable. Installed indoors or outdoors, they invite viewers to perceive the hidden, silent life of forests in a tender and uncanny world.
Louise Hindsgavl (Galerie NeC)
Danish ceramicist Louise Hindsgavl, trained in Kolding, creates white porcelain sculptures of classical refinement that contrast with often dark and ironic narratives. Her frozen figures blend aesthetic softness with dramatic depth, exploring the contradictions of the soul. Featured in major European collections, she excels in the art of sculptural storytelling, combining technical finesse with social critique.
